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Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned. ↗

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

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When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all. ↗

— Lee Bennett Hopkins

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An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves. ↗

— Roy Blount Jr.

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don't ride for the ribbon, but ride for your own joy to life. ↗

— Gajoch

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Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill. ↗

— Saigyō

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We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of frailty and cruelty. ↗

— Douglas Clegg

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Reckless in love but cautious in life, that’s a message I have for you all tonight. ↗

— Tista Ray

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I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs. ↗

— Michael Chabon

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It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women. ↗

— Dave Hill

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I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour--or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing. ↗

— George Eliot

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